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On Oct. 1, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration will begin enforcing fall protection plans for residential contractors.
The regulations have long applied to commercial construction, but this year marks the first that OSHA will begin requiring
residential contractors to exercise the same level of caution when employees are working more than six feet above the ground.

Even now, chills run down Mary Beth Ramey’s spine when she stands along the canal in downtown Indianapolis and thinks
about how that spot ties into the litigation she’s been involved in for the past decade.

Dedication to clients, competitiveness, and a strong work ethic are qualities that many successful lawyers share. Those same
traits may put attorneys at greater risk for major depression if they end up demanding more from themselves than they’re
able to give.

In June, the National Association for Law Placement released key findings stating 2010 was the worst job market for law school
graduates since the mid-1990s. For graduates whose employment was known, only 68.4 percent obtained jobs that required bar
passage – the lowest number in that category since NALP began collecting data on law graduates in the early 1980s.

The nation’s highest court affirmed an Indianapolis federal judge’s ruling, finding that someone who flees from
police in a vehicle is committing a “crime of violence” that justifies a longer sentence.

The Indiana Supreme Court is being asked to revisit a ruling on a person’s right to resist illegal law enforcement entry
into one’s home, and 71 state legislators have signed an amicus curiae brief asking the justices to narrow their decision.

What if 1976 hadn’t played out the way it did, and some of the jurists on the U.S. Supreme Court had held the view of
capital punishment at that juncture that they did at the end of their judicial careers? The death penalty may never have been
reinstated.

The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to take a case asking whether Indiana’s judicial canons constitutionally
infringe on the free speech rights of those on or vying for seats on the bench.